Robert Sloper
Sir Robert Sloper
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Born | 8 May 1729 |
Died | 18 August 1802 |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ |
British Army |
Rank | General |
Commands held | Indian Army |
Battles/wars | Second Anglo-Mysore War Third Anglo-Mysore War |
Awards | Knight Companion of the Order of the Bath |
General Sir Robert Sloper KB (8 May 1729 – 18 August 1802) was Commander-in-Chief, India.
Military career
Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to Major in 1755.[1] He was appointed Commanding Officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany.[1] In 1778 he was deployed to Ireland and from 1779 he was sent to India seeing service in the Second Anglo-Mysore War as well as the Third Anglo-Mysore War.[1] In 1785 he became Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India.[1] He was promoted to full General in 1796.[1]
He lived at West Woodhay House at West Woodhay in Berkshire and is buried at St. Martin's Church in East Woodhay in Hampshire.[2]
Family
He was married to Jane Willis with whom he had six sons and four daughters.[3]
References
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Preceded by | Commander-in-Chief, India 1785–1786 |
Succeeded by Charles Cornwallis |
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Biographies of People who worked in British India by Tom and Wendy Dailly
- ↑ Humphreys Family Tree
- ↑ Notes & Queries Oxford Journals, 1947
- Pages with reference errors
- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- 1729 births
- 1802 deaths
- British Army generals
- Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath
- British Commander-in-Chiefs of India
- 1st King's Dragoon Guards officers
- 10th Royal Hussars officers
- British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Mysore War
- British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Mysore War
- 14th King's Hussars officers